Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) training

Web-based Toolkit: The Next Generation in HSEEP Training

Together Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and the California Emergency Management Agency have developed a new Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) course that creates a balance between learning exercise methodology and using Web-based toolkit activities to plan and develop exercises.

The revised HSEEP course is a four-day, hands-on course featuring computer-based activities that maximize use of the HSEEP Toolkit—an interactive, online collection of systems and tools used for exercise scheduling, design, development, conduct, evaluation and improvement planning.

This revised course also allows participants to use their own jurisdictional information to complete course activities, making the material more relevant.

As a result of the improvements, participants can:

Gain valuable HSEEP Toolkit training and experience

Use course activities to plan an actual exercise

Evaluate the actual exercise they have presented

The HSEEP Toolkit includes the following components:

National Exercise Schedule System
An online, comprehensive tool that facilitates scheduling, deconfliction and synchronization of all national-level, federal, state and local exercises.

Design and Development System
A project management tool and comprehensive tutorial for the design, development, conduct and evaluation of exercises.

Exercise Evaluation Guide (EEG) Builder (beta)
Gives users the ability to create customized EEGs both inside the toolkit and through the Web site by selecting which activities from a given capability will be evaluated during an exercise.